Garbage truck backing up strikes Bellingham resident

BELLINGHAM ­— A garbage truck backing up to retrieve a missed garbage can about 8:50 a.m. Monday, Sept. 3, resulted in striking a pedestrian. Lyle VanderYacht, 70, is a resident on Sunset Way on the west side of the Lummi peninsula. He was in the roadway when the 2009 CCC garbage truck driven by Stevica…